Ironically, Road Fotos 17 were taken where this post ends up. And I had planned NOT to post today, but . . . time affords posting, and posting makes a drive more like a gallivant. Given that I drove to Hampton Roads, it’s interesting to reflect on what scenes are absent from this post. Three hours after locking my house door, I was on New Jersey at the southern tip on NJ, looking

USS Shamal (PC-13) was the thirteenth Cyclone class patrol (coastal) ship. Shamal was laid down September 23, 1994 by Bollinger Shipyards, Lockport, Louisiana and launched March 3, 1995. She was commissioned January 27, 1996. Decommissioned by the United States Navy October 1, 2004 and transferred to the United States Coast Guard and recommissioned the USCGC Shamal (WPC-13).

Shamal was transferred back to the Navy on 30 September, 2011, and is once again designated PC-13.